Van Ness Public Housing
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Anonymous
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Now the Albemarle is going from borderline public/private housing to straight public housing.
https://www.foresthillsconnection.com/home-front/an-affordable-housing-nonprofit-wants-to-buy-the-avalon-apartments/ |
Anonymous
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Good.
Public housing should be spread equally across all wards. Glad to see Ward 3 is finally making baby steps towards carrying its fair share. |
Anonymous
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It's not public housing. That's run by DCHA and this would be a nonprofit using federal tax credits. And it would be moderate-income housing--families earning over $90k a year. And people with lower income who have vouchers.
Everyone needs a place to live--apartments are better and cheaper than providing services to people in shelters or tents. If this nonprofit can keep the building in good repair and manage troublesome residents well, it's fantastic. |
Anonymous
+1 from this Ward 3 resident |
Anonymous
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I hope they make a mental health screening before accepting possible tenants.
The Housing First policy applied by the DCHA has been a disaster. It has destroyed the peaceful living of so many communities around DC because they populated those communities with people with severe mental issues. |
Anonymous
Since it can do neither of those things (especially the second), it will be sht and will continue what we've seen happen up and down Connecticut Avenue. |
Anonymous
Destroyed? Highly doubtful. I'd much rather see them housed than living in tents on the street. |
Anonymous
“This” Ward 3 resident lives miles from upper Connecticut Ave and certainly never walks along it. Guaranteed. My guess is deep into AU Park near Mass or deep into 20015 right next to RCP at about 27th Both bastions of the limousine liberals - equity consequences for Thee but not for Me! Enjoy Murch y’all (scurries back to all white Janney/Lafayette with zero apartments ) |
Anonymous
| Honest question, not trying to be snarky, but why can’t these people just get jobs? There is s labor shortage. |
Anonymous
I guess you has been living in a bubble. There are so many cases of people with mental issues assaulting condo's staff or residents. There other cases with people with criminal records (sexual offenders, pedophiles, etc.) living in condos where there are children. Nobody wants to have a sexual offender neighbor specially if you have children. There are mental facilities for those kind of people. What is the problem with screening people for mental health issues or criminal record before inserting them in a community? I have no problem with Affordable housing, but the way that is has been implemented by the DCHA is a disaster. Here are some examples of many: "D.C. housed the homeless in upscale apartments. It hasn’t gone as planned." https://www.reddit.com/r/washingtondc/comments/be19wp/dc_housed_the_homeless_in_upscale_apartments_it/?rdt=50224 "Apartment updates: Police calls rise, case managers remain absent, and tenant leaders continue to press for change" https://www.foresthillsconnection.com/home-front/apartment-updates-police-calls-rise-case-managers-remain-absent-and-tenant-leaders-continue-to-press-for-change/ "MPD referred three Van Ness apartment buildings to DC AG’s “nuisance” property office" "https://www.foresthillsconnection.com/news/mpd-referred-three-van-ness-apartment-buildings-to-dc-ags-nuisance-property-office/ "Residents and landlords speak at an apartment-focused Council hearing on crime" https://www.foresthillsconnection.com/home-front/residents-and-landlords-speak-at-an-apartment-focused-council-hearing-on-crime/ |
Anonymous
| The above were peaceful communities with no issues until the DCHA decided to populated them with people with mental health issues and criminal behavior. DCHA has been destroyed the live of so many people around DC implementing the Housing First policy (no screening for mental health issues or criminal record, in addition to zero support from the DCHA for the mentally ill who got housed. |
Anonymous
| 60-80% of median income would be great - that means apartments for nurses, teachers, GS-10s. The problem is really the homeless vouchers. |
Anonymous
If you had lived with them like I did, you wouldn't ask that question. I'm so surprised people don't understand how hard it is to come out of poverty in US if you were born into it in US. These people have mental, physical health problems, and who knows what else. Their family, friends, partners, and acquaintances have even bigger issues they pile on the few who would like to do better. When I first arrived in DC, poor and homeless, Section 8 people hid me in 3 different homes in Columbia Heights. I had never seen so much dysfunction in my life. There was also drug use, but the most harmful was set poverty mindset, which at the time I had no idea existed. They also had zero emotional control because of upbringing, childhood trauma. When I got a job, I lost $5k to the 'helpers' as fast as I could earn it. The only way out was to run away and never look back. I was not related to them, so it was easier for me to disappear. I was chased and dragged on the street as I tried to flee. Normal part of trying to escape poverty and someone being upset over losing their meal ticket. Had I stayed, they would have taken me down with them financially and emotionally. By the way, there was a huge amount of wage theft that happened to me and happens all the time with low wage jobs without contract. I took it as part of capitalism. I bet the poor would not have taken that crap. I remember one guy working for a week and standing there on Friday til they wrote him a personal check. Meanwhile, I'm standing there still waiting to get paid for last 10 weeks. They just have different way of doing things because of their life experiences.They have 'zero patience for pullsh_t'. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vaPAbi0xtQ8 |
Anonymous
Unless you live in an apt. building on Connecticut Avenue, kindly STFU, your opinion is worthless. |
Anonymous
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There has gotta be some apartments around Key, Stoddert, Mann, Janney we can sell to a non-profit low income housing company. Spread the wealth. No reason to only have them in Van Ness.
I can’t wait for all that housing in Friendship Heights to finish and then take vouchers. Janney will blow up. |